Modern · Oppau
BASF Visitor Center
The BASF Visitor Center is the starting point for getting to know the largest contiguous chemical site in Europe. BASF's main works stretches across roughly ten square kilometers along the Rhine and is a city within the city, with its own roads, railway lines and a harbour. In the visitor center, a modern exhibition vividly explains how the countless products of the chemical industry are created from raw materials. From here the popular works tours set off, on which visitors experience the immense scale of the plants with their own eyes.
Gateway to the chemical city
The BASF Visitor Center is the starting point for getting to know the largest contiguous chemical site in Europe. The main works stretches across roughly ten square kilometers along the Rhine and is a veritable city within the city, with its own roads, railway lines and a harbour. The center at the works gate in Oppau opens this otherwise closed-off world to visitors.
What to expect
A modern exhibition vividly explains how the countless products of the chemical industry are created from raw materials. Interactive stations and diagrams make complex processes understandable without requiring any prior knowledge. The center is therefore as suited to the technically minded as to families who want to understand the economic heart of the city.
Works tours
From here the popular works tours set off, on which visitors experience the immense scale of the plants with their own eyes. Only on the drive through the works does it become tangible what it means that BASF has shaped Ludwigshafen for decades. Since the tours are sought-after and limited in number, early registration through the visitor center is recommended.
In the district
Oppau
The northern BASF works, the Rhine harbour and living industrial history in the north.
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Werksführungen & Touren rund um die BASF
Vom Besucherzentrum am größten zusammenhängenden Chemiestandort Europas starten die Werksrundfahrten – erlebe die gewaltigen Dimensionen des BASF-Stammwerks am Rhein.
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